Business Skills for Creatives: Creative Placemaking for Stronger Community
Broward Cultural Division’s award-winning series for artists is back with all-new workshops. On Saturdays at 10:30AM, learn from industry professionals how to turn your creativity into a successful business in Business Skills for Creatives 2.0.
Session 3: Creative Placemaking for Stronger Community
Placemaking is a creative means to planning, designing and reimagining public spaces shared by people and their communities. As the world emerges post-pandemic, how do recent events shape how we view our neighborhood and public spaces? What role can artists have in creative placemaking?
In this session, Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and Jason Schupbach, contributing authors and section editors of the recent publication The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking, will discuss how creative placemaking can:
Reimagine the future and remember the past
Advance equity
Build stronger relationships
Support cross-sector collaboration
Create lasting community impact
LESSON BREAKDOWN:
Section 1: Guiding principles of Placemaking 10:52
Identifying community development and community assets 11:54
Examples of roles of art and cultural activities in communities 20:04
Section 2: Recent history of Placemaking 33:19
What Creative Placemaking can do 34:54
Anchoring projects and case studies 39:12
See field guides and studies on Placemaking 49:51
Section 3: Creative Placemaking Post-COVID 59:28
Examples of policy change 1:01:44
Talking about the Anti-Racist Frame 1:06:50
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
About Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson:
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson is an expert in comprehensive community revitalization, urban poverty, systems change, dynamics of race and ethnicity and roles and culture in communities. She is an Institute Professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Watts College of Public Service and Community solutions at Arizona State University where she leads the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities. She is the Senior Advisor for Arts and Culture at the Kresge Foundation and consults with national and regional foundations and government agencies on strategic planning and research. In 2012, she was appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Arts. She is on the advisory board of the Lambent Foundation and on the boards of directors of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts and LA Commons. Previously, she was a senior research associate at the Urban Institute in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center and founding director of UI’s Culture, Creativity and Communities Program.
About Jason Schupbach:
Jason Schupbach is the Dean of the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University and a nationally recognized expert in the role that arts and design play in improving communities. He was the federal liaison to the design community in his role as Director of Design and Creative Placemaking Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts.